9.00-9.30: Vinni Lucherini (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy), The Role of Consecration Ceremonies in the Development of Romanesque Monastic Architecture. The Case of Montecassino (1071)

9.30-10.00: Oana Toda (University “1 Decembrie 1918” of Alba Iulia), The river island monastery: long distance connections and micro-regional isolation in the case of Bizere Abbey?

10.00-10.30: Adrian Andrei Rusu(Institute of Archaeology and Art History of Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca), Spatial organization and monastic life in Bizere monastery

Coffee break

11.00-11.30: Peter Bednár (Institute of Archaeology in Nitra), Klaudia Daňová (Institute of Archaeology in Nitra), Jozef Gajdoš (Catholic University in Ružomberok), Petra Smetanová (Institute of Archaeology in Nitra, Slovakia), The archaeological research of the monastery in Hronský Beňadik

11.30-12.00: Zsuzsa Eszter Pető (Central European University, Budapest), Royal Hermits?Medieval Landscape of the Pauline Monasteries in the Pilis Forest

18.30-19.00: Soos Zoltan (Mures County Museum), The Role of the Mendicant Friaries in the Medieval Transylvanian Economy. Archaeology, Material Culture and Site Selection Procedures in the Research of the Medieval Mendicant Network

19.00: Dinner

Saturday, October 18th, Apor Palace (Senate Hall, 1st floor)

MONASTERY AS PRODUCTION CENTRE; USAGE OF ART IN THE MONASTIC MILIEU; ARTISTIC CONNECTIONS

9.30-10.00: Krisztina Havasi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Art History, Budapest), Marble Works and Marble Floors in Medieval Hungary in the Late 12th Century. Fragments of a Choir Screen and Opus Sectile from Eger Medieval Cathedral and its Artistic Connections

The subject of this conference proposal comes from the results of a newly excavated suburban monastery, the Saint-Vanne abbey in Verdun : located on a hilltop at the crossroads of major ways and rivers during the Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the former abbey was later incorporated inside a major modern fortress (16th c.), the High Citadel of Verdun, and thus left untouched from contemporary buildings.

The paper will summarize the results of the two first seasons of excavations, whose main objective was the global understanding of the layout, of the site from the earliest ecclesiastical occupation (first half of the 7th c.) to the different building and occupation phases of the monastery in the Gothic era (15th c.), with an emphasis on the most magnificent period, under Richard’s abbacy (11th century). The function of each space (place of worship and burial ground) will be especially considered, in relationship with the local cult of holy relics. A comparison with other monasteries of the Mosan greater area (today’s Belgium) will be made, regarding their architectural and stylistic character.